Un cartograf şi filolog ceh în Ţările Române în 1856 şi primele etimologii româneşti
A Czech cartographer and philologist in the Romanian Lands in 1856 and the first Romanian etymologies

Summary/Abstract: Emanuel Salomon Friedberg Mírohorský (1829-1908) was a Czech linguist, painter and army map designer who was commissioned in 1856 to draft the maps of several parts of the present Romanian territory within a wider project of the Austrian administration. In this capacity he spent several months among Romanians and showed a special interest in the Romanian language, which he learnt to speak fluently, as he did in other 10 modern and old languages. The Czech linguist was perhaps the first to suggest some of the etymological solutions for several Romanian words such as “pământ, mormânt, călugăr, logofăt, zapciu etc.” long before the publication of the first etymological dictionaries of the Romanian language by Romanian authors.

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